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Post Merediem
The house meet According to Adjournment

Present
His Honour Charles Calvert Esq^r Gov^r

Coll^o Addison Esq^r Loyd, Coll^o Tilghman Esq^r Lowe Coll^o
Ward Esq^r Bordley & Esq Bowles.

The following Message Prepared by this house & Agreed
upon

By the Upper house of Assembly

July the 22^d 1721
Gentlemen. It being represented to this house by Severall
of the Chief Officers of the Militia, that the Captains and
other Officers under their Command are Discourag'd from
Performing their Duty by being Rather Disused and Af-
fronted, than Respected and Obeyed by the private Sentinells,
which they Conceive is Chiefly Ocasioned by a want of
Power in the Captains of the Severall Troops and Companys,
to fine those who doe not Observe their Duty, as the Law
Directs but must Apply to two of the field Officers for that
purpose Who knowing the frequent Disappointments, that

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Attend the hearing Such Complaints Doe not Care to take the
trouble upon them, It is therefore Proposed by this house that
the Severall Captains, be Enabled by a Supplementary Act
to fine those Who doe not Perform their Duty according to
the Act for regulating the Militia &c^a With a Liberty to the
pson So fin'd if he think himself Agreiv'd to Appeale to two
of the Chief Officers for reliefe
Signed p order Joh Beale Cl. Upper Ho.

Sent to the Lower house by Col Ward who returns & Sayes
he Delivered the same
The following Message prepared and agreed upon by this
house Viz.

By the Upper House of Assembly
July the 22^d 1721
Gentlemen. It is found by Experience that the Act for
Limitting the Continuance of Actions is rather a prevention
than a furtherance of Justice for that so many unforeseen
Casualties frequently happen in the Course of Legall Pro-
ceedings that a Certain time Cannot be Limitted for their
Continuance without Imposeing inevitable hardships on the

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